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I rarely, if ever, write LOL. When I do, it tends to be in emails to people who understand that when I write it, it's a shortcut for "I actually am actually laughing out loud". In other situations (most recently, in reply to a comment of

sammason's, which quite caught me off guard), I feel the need to spell out that whatever they've written has actually made me laugh. Out loud. If I haven't caused at least three colleagues to turn round and look enquiringly at me, it just ain't LOL-worthy.

Because sometimes, I feel like I don't laugh much. In general, I'd say I'm very easily amused. Yet frequently I'll read a mildly diverting page on t'web, only to find comments along the lines of "crying with laughter, here". And I think: what, really? It didn't cause me to make any audible expression at all. Yes, I know humour is subjective. And yes, how funny you find something depends very much on what you're doing - if you're already laughing, a slight joke can make you laugh all the harder. Am I just hard to entertain in written form?

I do wonder that perhaps a lot of the things that make me LOL do so by being so unexpected. Things which have made me LOL on first reading rarely do so a second time, even though they remain funny. Of course, the downside of being caught on the hop by funny stuff is that it's just as likely to cause a
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scenario as a LOL.

Some people seem to exhale LOLs and lolols with every sentence. Either they are continually in a state of near hysteria, or they take the expression less seriously than I do.

Do you laugh out loud a lot reading the web? Do you LOL?